# 2004 Election Mythbusters **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 13, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2004-election-mythbusters/274507 "2004-11-13T02:14:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2004-election-mythbusters/274507/21 "2004-11-15T06:08:05Z")
> [@Johnny Bravo](#): > > Candidate with more royal blood wins. Bush and Kerry are [ninth cousins, twice removed](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/04/politics/main604163.shtml). While they’re both related to the Queen, I’m not sure either of them is more closely related than the other. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2004-election-mythbusters/274507/22 "2004-11-15T12:40:06Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > Clearly, this is all the fault of the Red Sox winning the World Series this year. > > Breaking that 86-year-old curse must have created a resonance in the sub-psychic etherial causative matrix, disturbing these presidentially predictive points which until this year were as reliable as the sunrise. Thank you, Mr. LaForge. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2004-election-mythbusters/274507/23 "2004-11-15T22:18:11Z")
Of course, only the “magical” correlations can really be said to be “busted”. Anything like “large turnout favors Democrats” must be interpreted as a statistical statement, if it’s to have any meaning at all, and one counterexample does not make or break a statistical correlation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2004-election-mythbusters/274507.md?page=1)